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April 2017

April 27, 2017

Keller and Coulter, Orthodoxy and Heresy

Most of you have no doubt heard about this spring's Kellerite controversy at Princeton Theological...

April 26, 2017

“What do Eastern Orthodox Christians believe about…?”

As evangelicals pay more attention to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, guest blogger Matt Miller reviews a...

April 25, 2017

Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages

Although they were infrequent affairs, formal debates between Christians and Jews sometimes took place in...

April 24, 2017

Remembering the Armenian Genocide

In the middle of World War I, hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in the...

April 21, 2017

Of Slavs, Slaves, Vikings, and Genetics

I recently had a DNA test to help trace my ancestry, and the result surprised...

April 20, 2017

Please Stop Talking About “The Mother of All Bombs”

Last Thursday the United States military dropped a bomb on ISIS targets in eastern Afghanistan....

April 19, 2017

Are Women Human in Christian Academia?

Recently, Karen Swallow Prior spoke out against the "Billy Graham rule"--married men distancing themselves from...

April 18, 2017

“Come, Lord Jesus, Be Our Guest”

The murky history and theological power of one of the most familiar, mundane, and meaningful...

April 17, 2017

And Battles Long Ago

I have often posted on themes of history, memory, and forgetting, and some recent news...

April 14, 2017

Lost Christian Nubia

A spectacular recent find in northern Africa throws new light on early church history, but...

April 13, 2017

The End of Silence

Shusaku Endo's Silence is a very grim novel, as is the much-discussed recent film adaptation by...

April 12, 2017

Academic Freedom, Christian Higher Education, and the History of Sexuality

Guest blogger AnneMarie Kooistra reflects on teaching the history of sexuality as a professor at...

April 11, 2017

Billy Sunday vs. Kaiser Wilhelm the Mephistopheles

As the U.S. enters the centenary of its entry into World War I, a look...

April 10, 2017

Mea Culpa: On Charles Marsh’s Biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Between my own blog, this one, and a couple others, I've written about 1,500 posts...

April 10, 2017

Adam and Eve Are Not Dead

Bruce Feiler has put Adam and Eve back in vogue with his book The First...

April 09, 2017

The Christian History of “Pagan” Easter

This is a slightly updated post from my Anxious Bench archives. Happy Easter! I bought...

April 08, 2017

A New Movie on Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How you can purchase or screen Come Before Winter, a new docudrama on the last...

April 07, 2017

American Violence: Honor and the American Difference

At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was an exceptionally violent country,...

April 06, 2017

Is Complementarian Theology Abusive to Women?

As you may have heard, Princeton Seminary decided to award Tim Keller the prestigious...

April 05, 2017

Gone Girl: Disappearing Women from “The Easter Hymn”

I bet that, for those of you attending church on Easter Sunday, at least half...

April 04, 2017

American Violence: Things Fall Apart

I have been posting about the extreme violence that characterized US life around the turn...

April 03, 2017

The “Indefensible Hope” of Baseball

Why baseball fans like Chris get so excited about Opening Day — and why it's so...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

American Violence: Western Mythologies

I posted on the extreme violence that characterized the United States around the turn of...

March 29, 2017

Being Protestant

Early modern English Protestants, at least the more earnest among them, were known...

March 29, 2017

The Need for a Comprehensive “Theology of Diversity”

Guest-blogger H. Paul Thompson on the need for a comprehensive theology of diversity "that embraces...

March 28, 2017

Confessing Faculty: A Statement of Confession and Commitment from Christian Professors

Hundreds of "Confessing Faculty" at Christian colleges have signed a "Statement of Confession and Commitment."...

March 27, 2017

Leadership for All?

Enough already with leadership. What we need are some good followers. This is the bottom...

March 24, 2017

History as an Act of Gratitude

Why the recent death of an elderly friend has Chris thinking about history as an...

March 24, 2017

American Violence: The Long Civil War

I know the American Civil War happened, but I’m not too sure when, how, or...

March 23, 2017

A Golden Age for Christian Colleges?

Are Christian colleges uniquely positioned to revitalize our nation’s intellectual life and contribute to cultural...

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